No More Stupid! No more nuance
…In my last post I noted that we are indeed fortunate to this point that the people who want to kill us are, in general, a little bit dumber than we are. This has accorded us a certain measure of safety. They busy themselves detonating small charges in their private parts and leaving unexploded devices containing the keys to their other car and what amounts to a roadmap to their homes. We have distracted ourselves with pastimes fit only for overeducated, self-important, arrogant imbeciles: handicapping our security forces by applying the values and protections of our republic too broadly to the entire human race in general (regardless of whether they buy in to our system), overestimating our own power, underestimating the unalterable hatred of our enemies, refusing to understand that they simply do not share our values or dreams, and outlawing the words that must be used to come to any full understanding of what we need to do to protect ourselves…